Cycling is about "Safe exercise" and "Safe low-emission travel" The Health and Fitness objective is UNDERMINED if the means of exercise is UNSAFE! This blog STRONGLY OPPOSES certain reforms VicRoads is currently considering: “cyclists could be allowed to treat red lights as Give Way signs. And the same could also APPLY at pedestrian lights."
Also "PERMITTING cyclists, riding cautiously, to proceed past a stationary tram;" "allowing teenagers to ride on footpaths"(Herald Sun)PDowe

It is yet to be established whether the retired schoolteacher was crossing with or against traffic signals.

The cyclist, a 30-year-old man from Port Melbourne, escaped serious injury but has been left devastated.

Mr MacKenzie’s son Alastair told the Herald Sun while it was too early to know what caused the accident he hoped it would result in bikes becoming registered to make riders more accountable.

He said the Transport Accident Commission also did not assist with medical or funeral costs for those hit by bikes because they weren’t a registered vehicle.

“There is no accountability at all,’’ Alastair said.

“What we want is for people to be aware they are potentially in control of a dangerous weapon — it is just as dangerous as a car.

“It’s also about people having some sort of recourse if something happens.

“By bikes not being registered a cyclist can hit someone, get back on their bike and go and there is no way of being able to track down who that cyclist is.

“Victims of such incidents should have the same rights as anyone who is hit by a car or motorbike.

“We are trying to ensure that dad’s death has some meaning in being able to make changes.

“We can’t bring him back. But dad would have been really happy to think he could make some sort of change which was for the better. That is who he was.”

Mr MacKenzie, who was to celebrate his 60th wedding anniversary in November, was returning from taking his four-month-old staffordshire terrier to the beach when struck by the outbound road bike at the crossing in front of the ice cream kiosk near St Kilda Sea Baths.

He had almost completed crossing from the beach to the city side.

“Dad was incredibly pedantic and was training the puppy,’’ Alastair said.

“As soon they got to roads she had to sit, he would give her a treat and when it was right to go they would cross.

“My father was an incredibly fit and a very active man. He walked every day.

“He was absolutely dedicated to his family.

“Mum is devastated. They did everything together. She just can’t believe what has happened.”

Sen-Constable Nick Williams said CCTV had been of no assistance to investigations and appealed for witnesses, especially a doctor who rendered assistance, to come forward.

“As the pedestrian was crossing the road he has entered the bike lane and the cyclist has collided with him,’’ Sen-Constable Williams said.

“We don’t know whether the cyclist had a green light or a red light.

“We don’t know whether the pedestrian had a green light or a red light.”

“We know how he died we just want to know why he died — what the traffic conditions were like, what the traffic control signals were showing.

“He was attended to by a number of witnesses including an off-duty female doctor who we're particularly interested in speaking to.”

A bike fatally struck 77-year-old pedestrian James Gould further along the popular thoroughfare at Mentone in 2006.

The cyclist was fined $400 for not stopping at a red light.

Information or footage can be provided to Crime Stoppers via 1800 333 000 or crimestoppersvic.com.au